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Europe Stocks Slip; Irish Debt Worries Grow

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Andrea Tryphonides

Updated Nov. 9, 2010 4:01 a.m. ET

European stocks finished mostly lower Monday, taking a breather from last week's gains sparked by the Federal Reserve's second round of quantitative easing in the U.S. and after investors' focus switched back to the stubbornly persisting euro-zone sovereign-debt threat.

The euro, beset by the latest round of euro-zone fretting, lost ground against the dollar. Ireland appears more and more likely to join Greece in the euro-zone intensive-care unit, with Portugal not too far behind.